A Tokoroa dog on death row for more than two years with a bill nearing $80,000 in upkeep and legal costs has been sentenced to death.

The family of the woman found dead along with her partner and three children in the wreckage of their crashed car near Tokoroa have spoken of their grief.

The two Indian men who were killed in a crash near Tokoroa yesterday have been named as a father and son from Jharkhand in eastern India.

A 3-week-old boy died with four members of his family in a crash in the Waikato - and may have lain in the wreckage since Sunday night.

Police have named a family of five killed in a Waikato crash, whose bodies were found today, shortly after another fatal accident in the region.

A post-mortem is underway on a body found in a burnt out car in forest between Taupo and Tokoroa yesterday.

Bob Gabolinscy never realised his forehead was streaming with blood after a group of young men attacked him with a pack of pre-mixed drinks outside his home late at night. He was too worried about rescuing his wife Margaret.